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For Yahweh your God has chosen him from among all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, he and his sons forever.[a]

And if a[b] Levite comes from one of your towns[c] from anywhere in Israel[d] where he is residing, he may come whenever he desires,[e] to the place that Yahweh will choose, and he may minister in the name of Yahweh his God, just like all his brothers, the Levites who stand there[f] before[g] Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 18:5 Literally “all of the days”
  2. Deuteronomy 18:6 Hebrew “the”
  3. Deuteronomy 18:6 Literally “gates”
  4. Deuteronomy 18:6 Literally “all of Israel”
  5. Deuteronomy 18:6 Literally “he may come in all the desire of his soul/inner self”
  6. Deuteronomy 18:7 Literally “the Levites the ones standing there”
  7. Deuteronomy 18:7 Literally “to the face of”